Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

‘This is a book which has understood the age … and, a surprisingly rare virtue, loves and sympathizes with its dashing, dazzling spirit … the most brilliant intellectual moment in European history … has inspired a brilliant, lucid and admirable book’
Philip Hensher, Observer ‘Where once the Enlightenment served as shorthand for rigid self-regulation, Porter’s Enlightened Britons display a delightful appetite for fun … simply superb’
Kathryn Hughes, New Statesman